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limited appliances and often working under most adverse 

 conditions at sea, were able to do so much good work. 

 Any new records that one obtains are due entirely to the 

 more systematic and exhaustive investigations carried 

 on now, which were impossible in the past. A good deal 

 yet remains to be done, however, before the various 

 organisms inhabiting the sea round the Isle of Man are 

 completely known. The deep channel between the Isle 

 of Man and Ireland is still practically virgin ground. 

 The few hauls snatched from it by a stroke of luck have 

 revealed interesting forms. Under the International 

 Investigations, the deep water of the Faroe Channel is 

 now shown to have a rich and varied crustacean life ; 

 while we know from the monographs of Professor G. 0. 

 Sars and numerous papers by other workers that the deep 

 water of the Norwegian Fjords has a rich fauna. The 

 beautiful copepod Euchceta barbata, Brady, described 

 from a single specimen taken oif the East coast of S. 

 America during the kk Challenger " investigations, is not 

 uncommon in those northern depths. Turning to our own 

 shores we find, from the investigations of Sir John 

 Murray, the Fishery Board for Scotland, the Fisheries 

 Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Technical 

 Instruction for Ireland, &c, that the deep waters of the 

 Scottish lochs, e.g., Loch Fyne, and off the west coast 

 of Ireland have a fauna quite distinct from the shallower 

 regions, at any rate as regards the Crustacea. It is 

 rather remarkable that we should know so much 

 concerning the animals inhabiting the deep waters 

 mentioned, and yet know practically nothing about the 

 life in the deep water, of over 50 fathoms, between 

 England and Ireland. This deep area forms a nearly 

 continuous portion of the sea bottom from the Atlantic, 

 North and South of Ireland. A narrow strip of this 



